Browsing international press of the later 1940s, I found out there were fears/rumours about the Soviets about to mobilize substantial number of German PoWs in their custody in some kind of a Red Wehrmacht.
Any research/reading available? How much or how little substance was there? Where did the news originate?
Have a look on these:
DECAUX, A. "THE RED WEHRMACHT+ GERMAN PRISONERS-OF-WAR COOPERATING WITH RUSSIA." HISTORIA 470 (1986): 4-15.
Biess, Frank. Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany. Princeton University Press, 2006.
Ginsburgs, George. "Light Shed on the Story of Wehrmacht Generals in Soviet Captivity." Criminal Law Forum. Vol. 11. No. 1. Springer Netherlands, 2000.
Dear Pavol
up now what I found is that because of manpower shortages, from 1942 prisoners of war were forced to fight in the Red Army and were sent to the Eastern front.
so these rumours and fears were well founded.
watch this as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC6oJURg6Pk
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